Patent decision

BL number

O/226/22

Concerning rights in

GB1804895.9

Hearing Officer

Mr S Brown

Decision date

15 March 2022

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Innoplexus AG

Provisions discussed

PA 1977 Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application concerns a method of obtaining data, filtering the data and identifying probable links to the original input. It then scores each possible association and outputs the one with the highest score.

The Hearing Officer applied the Aerotel/Macrossan test and briefly considered the signposts laid out in HTC v Apple. He decided that the contribution made by the invention was excluded as a program for a computer as such. The application was refused under section 18(3).

Full decision O/226/22 246Kb